First Game of the Season is a Win

Cucuy FC - The Blades 1:0

The first game of the season was against the beloved Blades, a team known for outstanding fairness and sportsmanship. Surprisingly, given that we had a 9 o'clock game and a time change, we had a full squad and five subs at the start of the game. I took less than a minute until the first Blade started complaining about the refs calls, and so it would go until the end of the game. Except for the whining it was a pretty fair game though without major fouls. We were pressing for the first goal but could not get it into the net until about 20 minutes in the game, when Chris got fouled in the box. Brent took the penalty, but the keeper had a good day and made an amazing save. Soon later though, Brent scored the winning goal, a nice first-touch from about 4 yards, after a pass from Karol.

Second half we continued to press for the second goal and had many chances but no luck. Dan had a nice run on the keeper after a pass from Eddy that was only stopped at last second. Carl had two nice shots on goal that missed only by a few. Karol and Cary both had more chances but the keeper saved those as well. Our defense with Freddie and Jason did an outstanding job the whole game, and the Blades did only have one real chance after a corner that Carl swept off the line.

In the end it was well deserved win that should have been a lot higher. Respect to the ref who kept his cool in light of some very bad, even racist comments from some of the Blades.

Goals: Brent 1 (Karol)